Historical Dictionary of US Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I

The Scarecrow Press, well known for its wide range of historical dictionaries, introduces a new series with this volume. Of its 1,000 or so entries, the majority extend only to a few lines, and about two‐thirds deal with people; the most important, such as US Presidents, rate about a page, and there are long articles on such topics as the international aspects of the Civil war, and the foreign policy issues important to each presidential election campaign (the predominant one was the level of the tariff). Other articles concern specific foreign policy crises, conferences, treaties, countries important to US policy,...